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2013 publications

There will be three journal articles out in 2013, along with The Birth of Territory. Two of the articles are related to that book, but take arguments in different directions and link to future projects on Shakespeare and Foucault. The third links … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault – Le beau danger

Interesting short book of an interview – which breaks off incomplete – with Claude Bonnefoy from 1968. Relates to Foucault’s books of the 1960s, especially History of Madness, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things and the soon-to-be-published … Continue reading

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Eyal Weizman – Mengele’s Skull and Forensic Architecture

Eyal Weizman’s The Least of All Possible Evils is getting much attention at the moment, but his short co-authored book with Thomas Keenan, Mengele’s Skull: The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics is well worth a read too. In 1985, the … Continue reading

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Speculative Realism book series – new titles

Graham Harman’s blog notes that three new titles have been contracted for the  Speculative Realism series he edits for Edinburgh University Press. Levi R. Bryant, Onto-Cartographies: An Ontology of Space and Time Jon Cogburn, After Quietism: Analytic Philosophies of Immanence … Continue reading

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Graham Harman on Tristan Garcia

Graham Harman has written an interesting and detailed review essay on Tristan Garcia, concentrating on Forme et objet, at Berfrois. Forme et objet has been sitting in my amazon.fr basket for a while – this piece convinced me I should … Continue reading

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Writing grant and research proposals

Just found this really useful resource when looking for something else on Michael Watts’s site. Suggestions, examples, resources for writing dissertation proposals, grant proposals etc. While designed for (post)graduates and early career scholars, I think there is bound to be something … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Pierre Riviere project

Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog has just posted the abstract for a very interesting piece on Foucault’s Moi, Pierre Rivière project – Michael Sheringham, “Michel Foucault, Pierre Rivière and the Archival Imaginary“, Comparative Critical Studies 8.2–3 (2011): 235–257. Sheringham talks about … Continue reading

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Ash Amin on Democracy

Piece at Berfrois – draws on his forthcoming book with Nigel Thrift, Arts of the Political. If democracy means rule by the people for the people, it has broken down. All we have today is rule by elites for national … Continue reading

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Richard Polt reviews the new translation of Heidegger’s Beiträge

Richard Polt reviews the new translation of Heidegger’s Beiträge zur Philosophie – Contributions to Philosophy – at NDPR. Polt is the author of what I think is the best book on the Beiträge. He pulls no punches in his assessment … Continue reading

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Modes of Writing

Following from the last post, I’m struck by Derek Gregory writing about his ‘Deadly Embrace’ lecture, because he outlines a mode of working that is almost the reverse of mine. Derek explains how he begins with the visual, and then over … Continue reading

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